A large number of stone inscriptions which are 1000s of years old paint a picture of the prevalence of Jainism (Samanam) in Tamilnadu. These are scattered throughout Tamilnadu. This post will talk about such stone inscriptions, sites they are found and related content.

My joy knows no bounds while looking this site.
by some how I came to this site, wow! I become speechless,
I want to know who put on this site?
if possible add the photos of those places which makes more interesting.
i felt ashamed that i did’t know about this site till date.
please reply.

Very happy to hear that you found this site useful, Mr. Appandairajan.. Who created the site is not very important, the contents themselves are :).. We are working to add photos and articles over the course of time and keep the site updated regularly. Hope we can achieve that with the encouragement of visitors to the site, like yourself..

fascinated by the details available. tamilnadu once was a great centre of buddhist and jain faiths. it is now time to search and find such places mentioned in the ancient tamil literature. more important is to protect such places from vandals, land grabbers, granite quarry owners and real estate developers. it is duty of the government to protect preserve and enlighten the local people about their glorious past by conducting camps and exhibitions. apprecitates the good work done by you

Recently I had been to Neminathar temple at Tirumali near Arcot with Reach Foundation an NGO working for maintaining our heritage monuments. It is excellent temple. Even though I am born and brought up in Chennai, I am not aware of this temple. The mural paintings which is found there are taking us back to1000 years .

I request you to list the ancient jain temples in Tamilnadu, the temple opening and closing timings, list of contact numbers, and important festivals and if possible date on which it falls in 2011 & 2012 so that people like us can go during the festival days for darshan.

Thanks for the information Mr. Gopalan.. Yes, our goal is to get a list of temples with addtional information such as timings, location, directions and contact details etc.. to facilitate people to visit them.. With all of your help we will get to that goal soon..

Kudos to you guys… I have not seen any great post before like this on Tamil Jain Sites……Thanks to you very much….I am from Udaipur (rajasthan) and want to visit there in january…on the internet I didn’t found much on tamilnadu jainsim- but you have done your work >perfect< It is really very helpful. Thanks again.

Very interesting work @ http://thamilarthookkam.wordpress.com/. Congratulations and keep up your good work. Writing every post in both English and Tamil is fantastic (something we want to do here as well but are not 100% there).

[…] 8. There are some blog sites maintained by Tamil Samanar. (Tamil and English). The URLs are not provided here because their obvious Samanam bias. They can be readily accessed by search words such as “Tamil Jain” or “தமிழ் சமணம்”. The following site specifically has extensive information on Samanam archaeological sites in Tamilakam: http://www.tamiljains.org/historic-tamil-jain-sites […]